Know who paid for the research before you weigh its claims.
What this tool does
This tool surfaces the funding and acknowledgment section of a paper, so you know who paid for the research before you weigh its claims. It looks for a funding or acknowledgments heading first, then picks sentences containing funding cues such as funded, grant, supported by, and thank. Funding does not invalidate research, but it is relevant context, and it is usually printed where few readers ever look.
It works fully in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to a server, and you do not need an account. Paste your text, press the button, and read the result on the same page. That makes it useful for students, researchers, and anyone who has to get through a long paper quickly without losing the important parts.
How to use it
Paste a full paper or its end matter, where funding statements live, and press the disclose button. Read the returned sentences and note the funder, the grant number if given, and whether any funder had a commercial interest in the result. Then read the results with that context in mind, not as a reason to dismiss them outright.
Worked example
An end-matter passage stating the work was supported by Grant 123 from the National Science Foundation, with thanks to the lab team, returns both sentences together. You learn the funder is public, the grant is identified, and the thanks are routine, which is a clean funding picture, and you learned it without hunting through the final page.
How to read the results
The output is a list of funding and acknowledgment sentences in original order, with a count and a note when no dedicated section was found. When a section exists, the list comes from there; otherwise funding-cue sentences are gathered from across the paste, so a funding note buried in a footnote is still caught.
Do not treat the output as a final answer. It is a starting point for your own reading. Skim the highlighted parts first, then read the full passage around anything that matters for your work. A tool can point at the likely important sentences, but only you can judge whether they are actually important for your question.
Honest limits
This finder uses headings and cue words, not understanding. It can miss funding described in unusual wording or in an image, and it cannot tell whether funding influenced the study, which needs judgement about the funder’s interests and the study’s design. A missing result here means no funding statement was found in the paste, not that the study was unfunded.
This tool does not use artificial intelligence, and it does not understand your paper the way a human reader does. It follows fixed rules that you can inspect in the results. That is a strength when you want transparent, repeatable results, and a weakness when a passage needs real understanding, context, or judgement.
Tips for best results
Paste clean text. Remove page headers, footers, and reference lists before you paste, because they add noise to word counts and sentence scores. Work on one section at a time for long papers, and keep your original file open beside the tool so you can check anything surprising against the source. If you use the result in your own writing, always cite the original paper, never the tool output.
Frequently asked questions
Is it free? Yes. The tool is free to use online, with no sign-up and no download.
Is my text stored anywhere? No. Everything runs in your browser tab. Closing the tab removes your pasted text.
Can I trust the output completely? No tool of this kind should be trusted blindly. Use it to speed up reading and checking, then verify the important claims yourself in the original text.
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